BB Park: "Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic"

December 7, 2005, NY Daily News — Brooklyn Bridge Park planners are proposing to chop 10 stories off one controversial condo tower – only to add them to another building, the Daily News has learned. The new designs, which will be unveiled at a community meeting tonight, cut an unpopular 30-story condo tower at the park’s southern entrance on Atlantic Ave. down to 20 stories, a source said. However, a 10-story building next door on Pier 6 will grow to 20 stories – though it would also be narrowed to take up less park space and make the entrance more welcoming. “It’s rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic,” quipped vocal critic Judi Francis of the Willowtown Association, who also leads the Brooklyn Bridge Park Defense Fund. The changes are one of two alternative designs for the Atlantic Ave. entrance that will be included in plans now up for state approval. The other proposal keeps the two buildings at their current heights but makes the 10-story building narrower.
Shift In Park Condo Plan [NY Daily News]